Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-05-12
LOCAL BREvFTIES.

The Sacramento river registered 10 feet
8 inches yesterday.
There is telegram at the Western Union
Telegraph Office for Charles Harley.
The alarm of fire from box l6 at $40 last
evening did not amount to anything.
Delayed passengers and mails from the
south arrived by special train about p VI.
yesterday.
Company E, of the First Artillery, has
accepted the invitation of the Chico Guard
to visit that city.
A dinner will be given by the Bar of Sac
ramento TO the Supreme Court at the Res
taurant de France this evening.
A fire on the Grant Yesterday is reported
to have burned about 800 acres of grass
How it originated is unknown.
w. H. Martin has resumed his old place
as pastor of the Christian Church at Wood
land, and will remain until next fall at
least.
Grant L. Taggart, at one time Clerk of
the Supreme Court, is now Postmaster and
Notary Public at Willow Branch, Modoc
county.
The last touch of winter reported in the
State was at Edgewood, on the California
and Oregon Railroad, where four inches of
snow fell Tuesday night.
Chief Dillman took to San Francisco
yesterday morning ]. J. Mccain, who was
arrested here on the previous day for a
forgery committed at the Bay.
Yesterday the Fish Commissioners paid
into the State Treasury, to the credit of the
Fish Commission Fund, $500, collected
from the sale of fishing licenses.
The only arrests made yesterday were
those of Duncan McClane, by officer
o Meara, for being drunk, and Louisa
Joncas, by officer Rice, for exhibiting
NJ. Judge, Road Overseer for District No.
in American Township, has rounded up
and graded the new Auburn road, until il
is now one of the best highways in the
county.
Col. c. F. Croker, Chief Engineer Hood
and Division Superintendent Wright re-
turned last evening from their trip over
the proposed route of the Placerville and
Shingle Springs Railroad.
|. Ralph McKune, who has OBLIGATED as
umpire very satisfactorily during the Cali
lorna League games at the park recently,
has been appointed official umpire for that
Leagues games in this city.
A. l.. Campo, of this CITY, Yesterday re-
ceived dispatch from his brother in ST.
Louis, announcing the death of their father,
August Campo. Deceased was sixty five
years of age, and had been paralyzed for
four years past.
The Woodland Democrat reports that
John d. Stephens purchased the ranch of
n. and d. Cadenasso, in Yolo county, last
Monday, paying therefor $685. 900, making
total of nearly 100000 which Mr.. Steph-
ems has put into Yolo county land in the
past few weeks.
George w. Hancock, of the State Board
OF Agriculture, is visiting various counties
in this section of the State, urging the de-
STABILITY OF competition in the matter of
county exhibits at the next State Fair, for
which premiums to the amount of 81, 500
have been offered.
A dispatch received from Fairfield last
evening, over the Postal Telegraph wires,
announced that the steamer Modoc, while
coming up last evening, ran into the wharf
| at Colllnsyllle in such a manner that a
gentleman named Winstock, book agent
| OF San Francisco, was killed.
In the show window of Hotfilter e.
| Grafmilier, Sixth street, betweenJ and X,
| are TO be seen two medals-one of gold and
the other of silver-made by that firm for
Company L, of the First ARTILLERY Reg-
| ment. They are of handsome design and
| finish, and will be given as prizes for
craftsmanship in contests by members of
the company.
| AT Woodland Tuesday evening, Johnnie
| Walters, an eleyen-year-old son of E. b.
| Walters, of that place, while driving a cow
to pasture was caught in the rope attached
to the COW and dragged four blocks at a
rapid rate, the animal only stopping by
coming in contact with fence The boy
was found to be badly bruised, and one
bone in the right leg slightly fractured.
Dan. Dennison, whoh has in his stable the
running horses Dave Douglas, Certiorari,
Blue Bonnet and Sally Hampton, left for
Woodland yesterday with the first two, to
take part in the races TO be held there on
Friday and Saturday. After those races
are over he will take Douglas and Certiorari
to Eureka, Humboldt county. for races to
take place on the 26th, 9th, and 2Sth insts.
The average Signal Service temperature
on Tuesday was 5l6o, which is 10 degrees
cooler than the average for that day during
nine years, the highest and lowest tempera-
ture being $50 and 4lo with a light frost dur
| ing the early morning. The wind was brisk
to high from the northwest. registering
a maximum velocity of 26 miles per hour.
The weather during the day was clear.
The average temperature yesterday was
56 so which is 80 cooler than the average
for that day in nine years. The highest
and lowest temperature was 60 and Az
| with brisk to gentle northerly wind and
clear weather prevailing.